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When it comes to those last globs of ketchup inevitably stuck to every bottle of Heinz, most people either violently shake the container in hopes of eking out another drop or two, or perform the "secret" trick: smacking the "57" logo on the bottle’s neck. But not MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith. He and a team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group have been held up in an MIT lab for the last two months addressing this common dining problem. The result? LiquiGlide, a "super slippery" coating made up of nontoxic materials that can be applied...

A hired hit man in Brazil never got the job done. Instead, he fell in love with his victim and conjured a plan to fake her death with the help of some ketchup, the U.K. Daily Mail reports. Carlos Roberto de Jesus was hired by Maria Nilza Simoes to murder Iranildes Aguiar Araujo, whom she suspected of having an affair with her husband. But the plan went awry when de Jesus fell in love at first sight with his intended victim and confessed the plot. The pair then conjured up a plan to fool his employer into believing he had...

Kerry blames out-of-touch voters for Democrats' midterm image troubles By Mike Lillis - 09/25/10 06:06 PM ET Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) this week said an uninformed public is largely to blame for the Democrats' problems heading into November's midterms, the Boston Herald reports. “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry said Friday in Boston, according to the Herald. "A lot of the anger today — while it’s appropriate because Washington is broken —...

<p>Your fries may never taste the same again!</p> <p>For the first time in 40 years, Heinz ketchup is changing its famous recipe -- by lowering the salt content in an effort to appeal to more health-conscious consumers, the company said yesterday.</p>

I recently rewatched 'Angels in the Outfield', the original one, the *good* one, with Paul Muni. And the same question that comes to me each time I watch it, once agin came to mind, and I thought i'd asik here, to see if maybe someone knew the answer. In the movie, there is at least one scene where the Manager(Munii) sits down to dinner, and puts Ketchup on it.... My question is...Was there a time where this was a common practice that some people did, or was this just a writers ploy to show how curmudgeonly the character was? I...

The gray tabby cat scrunched at the bottom of a stack of metal cages. If it was male or female, young or old, nobody seemed to know or care. All that mattered was its weight: 6 1/2 pounds. After a few calculations, the shopkeeper offered to sell the cat for $1.32 per pound, about $9. "We'll cut it up right here in back for you," the shopkeeper suggested. The scene is routine at butcher shops in the capital of Guangdong Province, formerly Canton. Dog is eaten in many parts of China, but the human consumption of cat meat is special...

Kerry -- who is exploring a possible 2004 bid for the White House -- became the first senator to call on Lott to resign his leadership post with a statement Wednesday. Feingold did the same Thursday.

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Election: It's the Cat People vs. the Dog Lovers Written by Burt Prelutsky Sunday, August 15, 2004 All the pundits who are forecasting the November election, busily analyzing blue states, red states, and those all-important purple swing states, are spinning their wheels. At the risk of sounding even more presumptuous than usual, I contend that they are wasting their time and yours. If you want to know who's going to emerge victorious, all you really need to do is find out how many people have cats living with them and how many have dogs. The cat people, I have decided,...

"There is nothing more pessimistic than saying America can't do better. We can do better and we will. We're the optimists. For us, this is a country of the future. We're the can do people... I am proud that at my side will be a running mate whose life is the story of the American dream and who's worked every day to make that dream real for all Americans... And what can I say about Teresa? She has the strongest moral compass of anyone I know. She's down to earth, nurturing, courageous, wise and smart. She speaks her mind...

(My "Freepranslation" [Translation] from Japanese):Daily ZakZak News (Nikkan Gendai), Tokyo, Japan August 4, 2004 in JapaneseHeadline: KERRY'S WIFE MAKES ANOTHER CAUSTIC COMMENT, CLAIMS BUSH'S RE-ELECTION WOULD BE 'HELL'Article:"What? That lady opened her big fat mouth again?American Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry's wife made comments again, this time in the US state of Wisconsin at a political rally, that likened another four years of Bush to that of "hell." This is causing an uproar, once again.This is what happened at a rally when supporters of Bush started to chant "Four More Years" in response to Kerry. But then she responded...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry , pretends to be scared of a stuffed catterpillar before reading to a group of children Monday, June 28, 2004, at the Gace Hill head start center in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) AP - Jun 28 4:15 PM Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry , plays with a group of childern after reading them a story Monday, June 28, 2004, at the Gace Hill head start center in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) AP - Jun 28 4:15 PM Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John...

The Default Democrat from another world How do you feel about "outsourcing"? John Kerry, the Default Democrat that his party's poor voters are trying hard to pretend to be excited about, is very opposed to it. His stump speech includes fierce denunciations of American corporations that export jobs overseas. He has pledged his support for a "Call Center Consumer's Right To Know", which would require that the guy at the call center identify his location at the beginning of every call. Right now, you just get vague hints – for example, if I'm in New Hampshire and dial directory inquiries...

February 05, 2004 A Vietnam Vet Against Kerry Our posts on John Kerry have elicited many grateful and supportive responses from Vietnam War vets. We have no standing of any kind to do anything but honor Kerry for his distinguished war service. I think we differ with Kerry nowadays on the justice of the war, the honor of the American cause, the respect due the men who served and the nature of their service. To our knowledge, Kerry has never apologized for his utterly disgusting defamation of all echelons of the American military in the war. This evening we received...

I am sure that many of you were shocked, by the CNN poll showing J. Ketchup Kerry beating President Bush in a poll: http://cnn.allpolitics.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Kerry+leads+Bush+in+new+poll+-+Feb.+2%2C+2004&expire=-1&urlID=9143781&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2004%2FALLPOLITICS%2F02%2F02%2Felec04.poll.prez%2Findex.html&part The poll goes against what most freepers regard as commonsense. Of course, you will say, a rich liberal New England elitist like Kerry can never get elected President. Right? No self-respecting folk in the South, the West, and the Mid-West will vote for him. Right? I will begin by stating an obvious fact that is well known to both you and I. That no Democratic Presidential candidate, who is truly HONEST about what the modern Democratic...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Teresa Heinz, who through more than seven years of marriage to Senator John F. Kerry has maintained her name, has decided to use the name ''Teresa Heinz Kerry'' for her husband's presidential campaign.</p> <p>Heinz, the widow of the late Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, decided to make the change after Kerry raised the issue with her, according to Heinz spokeswoman Chris Black.</p>